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Caroline Grannan was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 years. Currently she contributes to a number of Internet sites dealing with education and schools. She is a San Francisco public school parent, advocate, and volunteer and has followed education politics locally and nationwide.

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No Child Left Behind: intended to destroy schools, not fix them?

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 · 1 comment

"The point of NCLB, to some involved in its creation, was not to fix public schools, but to destroy them....
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How Prop. 13 helped make California ungovernable

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Prop. 13 has helped make California ungovernable and has brought our state to the brink of disaster. Veteran...
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SFUSD adding new positions at district HQ -- in this budget climate?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 · 4 comments

I was startled to hear that SFUSD’s Academic Professional Development department has added some 10-14 new positions recently, pretty much under...
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Obama under attack over firing of whistleblower who outed charter operator's misdeeds

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 · 4 comments

Here’s another early alert on a topic I haven’t had a chance to research fully yet.Republican critics of President Obama accuse him of...
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SF schools' supposed truancy numbers make no sense. What's going on?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 · 1 comment

A flurry of coverage a couple of weeks ago announced that SFUSD’s truancy rate is dropping.Well, that’s...
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School politics never end, but summer comes on anyway

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I hope every family has a ritual as important in their lives as our annual week (with many friends) at Camp Mather, the family camp near...
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Will more districts put billionaire 'reformers' in charge? A Texas-size question

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A Houston education insider sent me a commentary on the Houston Independent School District’s search for a superintendent, which he...
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Green Dot revolution targets school that outperforms current Green Dotters

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The in-your-face organizer of Green Dot charter schools, Steve Barr, is putting together what’s basically a fake parents’ movement down in...
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Newsweek needs to drop its invalid and corrupt high school rankings

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Newsweek once again has compromised both credibility and ethics by releasing its annual high school rankings...
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Some tributes on behalf of a Class of '09 graduate

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As the parent of a high school graduate and musician, I think some thanks are due. I sat happily through long lists of names and honors today at...
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